Collar.



PATENTED MAR. 26, 1907.

A. B. STAFFORD:

COLLAR.

APPLICATION FILED APB.16,1906.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

COLLAR.

, Specification of Iietters Patent.

Patented March 26, 1907.

Application filed April 16, 1906. Serial No. 312.004.

To a, whom it WMLZ/ concern:

Be it known that l, ALBERT Bunonss STAFFORD, a citizen of the United States, residing at Chicago, in the county ol Cook and State of lllinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Collars, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to llll[)lOVOlllOl'ltS in shirt-collars, and more. especially to the standing style, and has for its object to provide an article of this kind thatwill have a perfect lit and set and present a neat dressy appearance.

Under the ordinary arrangement it is dillicult to have the ends of a collar meet or come together evenly on a line when worn. The present improvement brings the ends of the collar together evenly, so that the upper collar ends will not bend or stand in. opposite directions.

In the drawings, Figure l is a view in perspective of a collar in its open position which embodies the improved features. Fig. 2 is a similar view showing the collar closed, and Fig. 3- is a detached View of the double llap or split end.

A represents a collar of the ordinary standing style, which may have theicdges of the meeting ends straight up and down or made somewhat slanting, as taste or fashion may dictate.

The improvement presented herewith resides more especially in' the buttoning-flaps tion of the bottom edge of the collar and the or tab ends 4 and 5. The flap 4 is of the ordinary formjand isprovided with a buttonhole 6. The flap 5 is made double or split inward from the lower corner end andpresents the companion overlapping flaps 7 and 8 provided with buttonlioles 9 and 10, as shown, ingFigs. 1 and '3. The line of the juncsplit flaps runs diagonally, starting from a point above the buttonholes and running out :or vanishing in the lower edge of the collar, as at 11.

Ordinarily the combined thickness of the companion button-flaps will approximately equal the thickness of the collar. When the ends of the collar are brought together in position to be buttoned, Fig. 2, the split .llap ends 7 and S straddle and overlap the llap 4 on each side and brings the ends of the'collar together on a perfectly straight line, so that they stand. evenly and present a neat dressy appearance.

W' hen the llap ends are of the usual form and one but tons over the other, it is liable to have the ell'ect of tipping or bending the upp r corner ends of the collar in opposite directions or s1 and unevenly. By means ol" the present improvement these objections are obviated.

llaving thus deseri lied my invention, what I claim is- 1.. A collar having two projecting buttoning-ilaps integral with the body thereof, one of said llaps being split to receive the other ilap between its divided parts and the three thicknesses oi the Maps being correspondingly provided with buttonholes substantially as set 'l'orth.

2. A collar provided at one end with a double buttoning-llap integral with the body of said co lar and adapted to receive the buttoning-flap on the other end ofthe collar between the two parts of said double flap substantially as set forth.

o. A collar provided at one end with a single projecting buttoning-llap only and on the other with a projecting double flap adapted to receive the former between its parts, these being the only parts of the article used in fastening the same substantially as set forth.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence 0 two subscribing witnesses.

ALBERT BURGESS STAFFORD.

Witnesses:

L. B. COUPLAND, G. E- CnUnon. 

